Chesapeake Shakespeare – By the Numbers

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In 2002, we opened a production of Twelfth Night, directed by Ian Gallanar at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City, which would serve as our indoor home (and offices) along with the PFI Historic Park, our outdoor venue, for the next 12 years. After year after year of rapid growth, in 2014 we opened our Downtown Theater in Baltimore, and the number of patrons and students that we served has grown far greater.

Here are some fun numbers that illustrate our story: We assembled these for our 15th Birthday celebration, on November 8, 2017.

3 productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, of A Christmas Carol and of Macbeth—the most of any particular play we have mounted. This December’s A Christmas Carol and June 2018’s Midsummer at the Ruins will bring each of them up to four. And this does not count our matinee productions of Romeo and Juliet—at least five so far.

I hope you, our patrons, subscribers, artists, volunteers, and donors, take pride in these achievements, because it is only your support, your commitment, and your enthusiasm that make our growth and our fifteen years and our next fifteen years possible.

Lesley Malin, Managing Director Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Announcements

September 10, 2019

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has embarked on a new strategic planning process. We blew through our 2011 strategic plan’s goals astonishingly faster than we predicted by acquiring, renovating, funding and moving into our beautiful theatre only three years after we created that plan. It’s taken us five years of working in this new space to feel ready to strategize anew.

September 4, 2019

We’ve started construction on our long-awaited pedestrian bridge—a ten foot structure that spans the alley that separates our beautiful theatre, and The Studio for education and our offices next door. We can’t wait to make it easy for students and staff to travel between the two buildings. Read more about it here and come try it out in November!

24 Hours at the CSC Theater

10:00 a.m. April 16–10:00 a.m. April 17, 2019: a typical spring day at CSC. After a morning performance of Romeo and Juliet for an audience of school groups, CSC technical staff take over the stage to dismantle and remove the set, then assemble an entirely different set for the evening's rehearsal of The Diary of Anne Frank. At the end of the night the entire process is repeated in reverse to get ready for another school matinee the next day. This year CSC presented school matinee performances for nearly 13,000 students from throughout central Maryland and beyond.